MPC1000 Hard Drive Recommendations

Sorry to take this thread on a different tangent but got an old 4200 rpm drive I wanna try before buying a new one but I am struggling to get the Akai HDM10 kit here in the UK.

Anyone able to point me somewhere with stock???

Many thanks, Nathan.

nate247 wrote:Sorry to take this thread on a different tangent but got an old 4200 rpm drive I wanna try before buying a new one but I am struggling to get the Akai HDM10 kit here in the UK.

Anyone able to point me somewhere with stock???

Many thanks, Nathan.

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/page/shop/flypage/product_id/8265

Blimey, thanks for the link but this works out at £31.99 with postage, or $57.00 dollars.

Anyone know of anywhere cheaper..... Sorry to be picky lol

Looked on eBay but not a thing

nate247 wrote:Blimey, thanks for the link but this works out at £31.99 with postage, or $57.00 dollars.

Anyone know of anywhere cheaper..... Sorry to be picky lol

Looked on eBay but not a thing

try turnkey.co.uk or imuso.co.uk neither have the hdm-10 listed, but email them, and they may be able to get it cheaper. otherwise hit up sparq with a pm, i think he can probably get it to your for cheaper.

nate247 wrote:Blimey, thanks for the link but this works out at £31.99 with postage, or $57.00 dollars.

Anyone know of anywhere cheaper..... Sorry to be picky lol

Looked on eBay but not a thing

i could get it to you for roughly £24 including postage. that's about $41. as long as you have paypal, we can do this.

look at my HDM10 adapter link in my signature.

Great Sparq, that would be very generous of you.....

I will check that link now, many thanks for the offer mate

stereoroid wrote:

magicdave wrote:Just received my KIT-HDM10 kit to install my 60g HD.

**** instructions by the way!

All it tells me about the type of hard drive to use is "2.5 inch ATA hard disk drive on the market can be installed to the MPC100."

So at AKAI we develop a bracket to install a HD to your MPC1000 and then keep you guessing on what type of HD to use!!! NICE

Guys, guys... hard drives are supposed to be standard. Are you expecting Akai to publish a list of drives, and say drives not on the list won't work? Well, I just plugged in a 6GB drive I had hanging around since about 1999, which has been used for various OS types (incl. Linux) and... worked first time. It's slow, a bit noisy, but how much speed do we need for this job?

Also, here's a trick for backing the drive up on the PC: get the Microsoft SyncToy and set it up to synchronize the MPC drive with another directory. Every time you sync, it copies the changed files (and only the changed files) in both directions. That means you can do stuff on either side and it's kept up-to-date. Even e.g. delete a file on the MPC, and it gets deleted on the PC next time you sync. Me likey!

Yeah, I'm using an old Travelstar 6gb drive and everything is cool with it. As of now, I have a little over 2gb used... so I got plenty of space left. The drive is a bit slow and noisy, but I agree with you that it's sufficent enough (until I run out of free space).

Thanks for the link to SyncToy. This is definitely gonna be usefull, as I have quite a few samples with filenames that need to be shortened in order to load properly on the MPC. Renaming everything twice can be very time consuming. This software is gonna make everything so much easier.

Given that the speed of the drive is less important (I am guessing that the speed of loading samples into ram is limited by the machine, not the drive--but even if it isn't, I can't imagine that we are talking about anything more than a couple of seconds for a 128mb load or dump), then I figure that the most important things are

1. Heat -- cooler is better.

and 2. noise. Less is good right?

I wouldn't spend extra on 5400 or 7200 drives if they caused more heat and noise and didn't give any real benefit other than spec bragging.

I am waiting on my hdm10. I salvaged a 40gig 4200 fujitsu out of a dead laptop and I am hoping that will be fine.

If my machine was noisy with hum from it, I would go shopping for the quietest drive I could find.

noision1 wrote:Given that the speed of the drive is less important (I am guessing that the speed of loading samples into ram is limited by the machine, not the drive--but even if it isn't, I can't imagine that we are talking about anything more than a couple of seconds for a 128mb load or dump), then I figure that the most important things are

1. Heat -- cooler is better.

and 2. noise. Less is good right?

I wouldn't spend extra on 5400 or 7200 drives if they caused more heat and noise and didn't give any real benefit other than spec bragging.

I am waiting on my hdm10. I salvaged a 40gig 4200 fujitsu out of a dead laptop and I am hoping that will be fine.

If my machine was noisy with hum from it, I would go shopping for the quietest drive I could find.

yeah i think you hit the nail on the head, a lot of people think that if you get a slow drive, it's going to affect their workflow vastly, but as the hard drive is only accessed during saving/loading, then their workflow should remain intact, unless you save every minute, in which case you're a dweeb.

ps i think the samsung spinpoint drive are among the quietest drive around, though someone else may know different.

hope this helps.

I can barely even hear my drive when i put my ear right next to it and can't hear it at all when i'm making a beat, i think with newer drives the above points are pretty much irrelevant

Spirez wrote:I can barely even hear my drive when i put my ear right next to it and can't hear it at all when i'm making a beat, i think with newer drives the above points are pretty much irrelevant

yes, but heat and noise will increase with the higher speed drives, it is a given. Having said that though, the technology nowadays is so good, that you're unlikely to have a problem with either heat or noise, as you said.

is it posible to get a hard drive with samples in it connet it to my mpc 1k then make a beat save it to my hard drive then i can connet it to my computer and put my beats on computer? is so wat will be a good one for me under $150??

Josheldominicano wrote:is it posible to get a hard drive with samples in it connet it to my mpc 1k then make a beat save it to my hard drive then i can connet it to my computer and put my beats on computer? is so wat will be a good one for me under $150??

what you are asking does not have to do with the hard drive. if you're asking about an external hard drive, then the answer is no.... you can not connect an external hard drive to the mpc. if you are asking about making a beat on your mpc then save it to the hard drive and then transfer the beat you made to the computer, the answer is yes AND no. yes- you can transfer anything you made on the mpc over to the computer. no-you can not transfer a beat you made on the mpc to the computer for your computer to play the beat in media player or itunes. in order for you to do that, you would have to resample your beat that you have on the mpc back into the mpc as a wav file then you can transfer that wav file over to the computer to able to be played in media player/itunes. and again, that has nothing to do with the type of hard drive.


if everything that i just mentioned still doesn't apply to what you want to know, then disregard everything that i wrote and state in more detail what you are looking to do.

sparq wrote:

Josheldominicano wrote:is it posible to get a hard drive with samples in it connet it to my mpc 1k then make a beat save it to my hard drive then i can connet it to my computer and put my beats on computer? is so wat will be a good one for me under $150??

what you are asking does not have to do with the hard drive. if you're asking about an external hard drive, then the answer is no.... you can not connect an external hard drive to the mpc. if you are asking about making a beat on your mpc then save it to the hard drive and then transfer the beat you made to the computer, the answer is yes AND no. yes- you can transfer anything you made on the mpc over to the computer. no-you can not transfer a beat you made on the mpc to the computer for your computer to play the beat in media player or itunes. in order for you to do that, you would have to resample your beat that you have on the mpc back into the mpc as a wav file then you can transfer that wav file over to the computer to able to be played in media player/itunes. and again, that has nothing to do with the type of hard drive.


if everything that i just mentioned still doesn't apply to what you want to know, then disregard everything that i wrote and state in more detail what you are looking to do.

Oh no thats wat i was asking if i can use and external hard drive. but in other words how do i resample to a wav file?

the answer is in your owners manual.